Senate Leader Phil Berger said Monday both chambers are working together to finalize the budget and says he hopes the Senate will have a draft to consider by Thursday.

Berger said the budget does include some reforms to how teachers are paid. The Senate and the House have agreed to a compromise pay raise for teachers. The budget also uses $25 million in non-recurring money from the lottery to preserve teacher assistant positions, which was a major priority of the previous House budget.

Berger said the budget does not include Medicaid reform. The Senate approved the Medicaid reform in a separate bill last week and took a final vote on it Monday.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned Tuesday that a proposed agreement between world powers and Iran was "a bad deal" that would not stop Tehran from getting nuclear weapons -- but would rather pave its way to getting lots of them and lea...